Palate
Appealing now, the wine shows beautiful fruit, layered with exotic spice, and complex minerals. It will be most enjoyable over the next five years.
Growing Conditions
A fifth year of drought threatened to leave the vines short on water. Thankfully late spring storms carried them through a very warm summer. Harvest started two weeks earlier than usual and quality was superb.
Winemaking
Short fermentations extracted elegant tannins.
